Beadle's Dime Novels No. 38: The Wrong Man — page 94: what you’re looking at

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06 THE WRONG MAN. atmospheric changes ; though the great master of the human heart has made one in somewhat similar, but far guiltier circumstances, cry out: “Methinks there now should be one huge eclipse Of sun and moon !” And Lord Byron, who was also no stranger to the workings of human nature, has described his Lara as unable to contem- plate a scene of quiet moonlight loveliness : “ Tt was a moment only for the good : So Lara deemed, nor longer there he stood, But turned in silence to his castle-gate— Such scene his soul no more could contemplate. * * * * * * * 7 A night like this, A night of beauty mocked such breast as his.” About the time that the deepening obscurity of the atmos- phere showed the sun had deserted the sky, the rain began to fall in torrents. But the storm did not deter Enoch Sedley, who for some time had seemed waiting impatiently for the shades of evening to close in, that he might go forth, and, unobserved, carry some plan into execution. His brow, as he prepared to set out, had those deep, perpendicular lines, and his mouth the firm compression, which are said to denote determination of character. Toward the block-house he di- rected his steps. Before approaching it very closely, he the entire circuit of the building, to be sure no listener w at hand to overhear him. Then cautiously drawing near, h called upon its inmate, in a low tone. _ A long and earnest conversation ensued, in the course o which the old man made a full disclosure to Dudley of th circumstances connected with the death of Overton. Other matters were discussed between them; but the purport of these we leave’to be gleaned from the following pages of our narrative. —_———_" The fifth day since the arrest of Dudley arrived. The eye of Lucy Dayton began to resume something of its former brilliancy, and her cheek its bloom. How far this result was to be ascribed to the natural tendency of a young and vigor- ous mind to throw off sorrow, and how far to the purpert conmiclooolkks.conn